Ralph Gibson Quotes

#1. The French have a different take on photography than Americans do. They consider photography to be absolutely parallel to literature. That often makes for a deeper perception of the work.

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#2. When I was working with Robert Frank, he told me that there was absolutely no relationship between cinema and photography. I challenge that. Surely what you know as a photographer must impact how you set up your shots.

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#3. My enthusiasm for joining the New York Film Academy is predicated on my personal explorations into video as well as a sense of responsibility to share my extended experience of photography with committed students in both mediums.

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#4. One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.

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#5. First you study photography, then you practice photography, then you serve photography, and finally one becomes photography.

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#6. I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

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#7. I embrace the abstract in photography and exist on a few bits of order extracted from the chaos of reality.

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#8. I believe that the medium of photography prevails entirely as an act of faith in the souls of those who love and practice it. And so every photograph becomes another subtle variation on the theme of the medium itself.

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#9. Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.

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#10. I'm too impatient to use a tripod.

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